Shopian, Omar Abdullah and Kashmir. The only common thing with them is that they hold the key to each other in maintaining sanity. By the way hello readers, its me again. I know that my blog has lost its readership but this blog is dedicated to a dear dear friend who wants me to write (though never insisted so). Well, this friend of mine does not that I wish to save my readers from the torture of going through my posts... Anyways, of late, I have travelled virtually to every nook and corner of the Kashmir valley and met cross section of people.
Well, I was trying to understand Kashmir's people again. Why do they go hyper over issues? Shopian incident was something which should not have happened but did anyone give time to Omar Abdullah to react to the situation. The very next day, people were on streets enforcing bandhs.And even before Omar could react, he found himself drowned in confusion and chaos from every side. The truth of Shopian can be found only in Shopian and one needs to talk to the neighbourhood of the victims...the truth is there but no one is willing so say that. The doctors who conducted the postmortem on the two victims have surprisingly written no cause of death and privately they have acknowledged that they have found nothing fishy. But still who will bell the cat?????
The irony lies in another fact which has been found in this town of South Kashmir, predominantly a Hizbul Mujahideen militant dominated area and having a considerable Jamaat population.
Ten kilometres from the site of Shopian village lies another dead body of a girl who has been brutally raped and later murdered by Hizbul Mujahideen militants. Barely a few days before after the Shopian incident, Nigeena Awan was dragged out of her home at Kellar, beaten up and executed with an assault weapon from point blank range. Her father, Mohammad Sharif Awan, was ordered to bury his daughter without ceremony; the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, which carried out the execution, also warned neighbours against dignifying her death with last rites.
Hours after her death, PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti visited Shopian to stage a protest against the alleged rape and murder of two local women — one of them, like Awan, a high school student. The death of Awan execution did not figure anywhere in her speech nor did it in speeches of clerics who have emerged as the key leader of the Shopian protests. No one has called for the men who killed Awan to be found and prosecuted. No one even bothered to visit her family, even though the hamlet of Pahlipora at Kellar is just a 10-km drive from Shopian.
People, sitting back at their homes in posh drawing rooms, have already started giving numbers to Omar Abdullah for his performance. Some are giving him four out of 10 and some even minus five. I don't hold a brief for Omar but would like to ask these people a question. Stand in front of mirror and and answer to your own self, what wrong has Omar done. He only promised to bring out truth and all he requires to have some time. Cant we give him. At least his track record of bringing out the truth has been 100 per cent be it in Sopore incident or be it a canard spread by PDP MLA about damages in Bandipore.
Omar has come and is aware of the expectations that the younger generation have from him. Let us Give him a chance. Does he not deserve one??? I have never met him but still have faith in him...Let us pray that our Kashmir becomes a heaven on earth...a true heaven. Amen....
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I hope and wish that many more people come out in open and discuss this issue with an open mind....
good to see you back with the latest updates on Kashmir.. in fact the first reaction of Omar's government had not only slipped up in its initial reaction but also created an impression that they are trying to cover up things in shopian, now the biggest relief is that the state government has set up the judicial commission, hope their high-profile investigating team will bring the clear picture and culprits of Shopian double rape and murder case out SOON.. only advise for Omar is as a CM of the State he will have to take some rapid action in such cases and needs to be more careful, alert and prudent..Since great promises have been made so expectations have to be bigger..
Your prayer of making Kashmir a heaven on earth, reminded me the great scholar Kalidasa who wrote about Kashmir that "The place is more beautiful than the heaven and is the benefactor of supreme bliss and happiness. now terrorism and politicians have made it hell or you may say it is a worst Heaven. because earth itself is not better then hell!
All hue and cries were quite expected. Everybody knew that the delay in registering an FIR in the police station has happened. Why the case has been treated as hit and run or as an accidental death????
not only people of Kashmir but we the Indians are being forced every time to come out to streets and protest,it works like a fire alarm for our government!!!!!!1
yu ar rite Omar needs a magical wand.
Your going to every Nook and Corner of kashmir and blaming HM(By the way I dont give a shit about them too), smells of Rot and Shit, I am glad you have proved yourself a lier , and whoever is reading your article is feeling the same.Right now my friend you are standing in Puke because the Jan commission has already come up with a List of six SOG(Security Men,Yes the ones who commit these crimes sometimes in uniform and some times dressed up as locals ) men who were involved in this hienous crime. And for everyone else ,I would recommend to use commen sense and lets start moving back to Kashmir. We keep listening and reading articles such as this one, it is designed to keep us away from Home(Kashmir),kashmir has turned back to normalcy except for some incidents , which I think is high time for us to act responsibly and stand shoulder to shoulder with our kashmiri brethren. 1 million yatries visit kashmir and come out safe every year , no one touches them, Kashmiri people are the same , they are the same people we have shared our villages and localities with But its people like the , "Kashmir Watcher" that we should be beware off.
-I am trying to settle back in kashmir(Pray for me)
what if the tragedy had befalen one of omar abdullah's sisters. would he ask for a second chance.
can you imagine someone's sisters at 17 (born 1992), man they are hardly out of school, carrying their satchels, going for tuition.
And now the doctor who had confirmed the rapes is suspended. shoudl it not be omar who should be suspended for lavelling a rape as an alleged rape here.
why did not a gynaecologist collect samples of lung, spleen. duh i dont know. i thought the gynaecologists are not spleen or lung specialists.
should it not have been the responsibility of the sp to arrange for a post mortem as soon as he determined anything out of the ordinary.
the crap goes all the way to the top. it should be omar abdullah who should be suspended along with his two-bit government.
an impartial enquiry should be conducted and the rapists and murderers of Aasiya and Neelofar jan brought to justice.
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